Enter the Silver Surfer (spoilers)

[Jade Jaguar]

Anyone else seen this yet? The Surfer is one of my favorite Marvel characters. The film was fair, but I hope for more and better, in the future. One thing I found disgusting was the product placement. Every time anyone was drinking a beer, it was Dos Equis. But, the real over-the-top part was when the fantasticar was shown with Dodge on the bumper, and Reed and Johnny Storm talked about that, including saying that it had a hemi! If you know what the fantasticar does, you know how ridiculous that is.

 

[darth_librarian]

I may check it out, or wait for JMS's Silver Surfer movie!!!

 

[Alluveal]

I really enjoyed the first one. It wasn't rocket science, but it was just a FUN movie. I went in expecting the first one to be lame, but came out saying "wow, I had a good time."

I hear this one was written by different peeps. I will see it here soon, I imagine.

 

[admiraldave]

It was okay. Johny didn't burn his clothes off nearly enough, and Sue's whining over a normal life bugged the heck out of me, but it was still a fun movie.

 

[LondosHair]

Enjoyed this one MUCH more than the first. Better writing, better acting, deeper characters, spectacular effects. Jessica Alba has never looked hotter, but I still say she doesn't make a good blue-eyed blonde.

 

[Jade Jaguar]

Jessica Alba has never looked hotter, but I still say she doesn't make a good blue-eyed blonde.

I'd have to agree with you. Much as I favor giving roles to black actors for reasons other than 'this is a black character,' when a character is that well established, I don't think is is always a good idea to make such a change. I have no objection to Alicia being black, instead of a tiny, mousy little blonde. I think that works very well. If they really want to use a black lead, perhaps they could make a movie of The Black Panther!


Addendum:
I just read somewhere else that Alba is a latina. Hmmm, she doesn't look it to me. I haven't exactly been a fan of hers, and therefore haven't read much about her, but she looks black to me. Guess I was wrong.

 

[darth_librarian]

Luke Cage, Power Man. That's the movie I want.

 

[Jade Jaguar]

I'd like to see Luke too, but I think he seems a bit too much like a 70s black exploitation character to be popular now.

 

[LondosHair]

9 out of 10 people aren't going to know Cage's origins, or how he used to look ridiculous in yellow & blue with a headband. I think it could work:

Luke Cage (film)

 

[KoshFan]

Addendum:
I just read somewhere else that Alba is a latina. Hmmm, she doesn't look it to me. I haven't exactly been a fan of hers, and therefore haven't read much about her, but she looks black to me. Guess I was wrong.

With a name like Alba? That's a fine old Spanish name.

 

[A_M_Swallow]

With a name like Alba? That's a fine old Spanish name.

Jessica Alba may be a hybrid. Probably light brown rather than dark black. She is a very pretty girl but her bone structure is wrong for a blue eyed blond.

 

[Sindatur]

I'd have to agree with you. Much as I favor giving roles to black actors for reasons other than 'this is a black character,' when a character is that well established, I don't think is is always a good idea to make such a change. I have no objection to Alicia being black, instead of a tiny, mousy little blonde. I think that works very well. If they really want to use a black lead, perhaps they could make a movie of The Black Panther!


Addendum:
I just read somewhere else that Alba is a latina. Hmmm, she doesn't look it to me. I haven't exactly been a fan of hers, and therefore haven't read much about her, but she looks black to me. Guess I was wrong.

Strange, I never would have even thought of the possibility of her having a bit of black blood in her. What makes her appear black to you?

Definitely hispanic/latina, IMHO.

 

[A_M_Swallow]

Strange, I never would have even thought of the possibility of her having a bit of black blood in her. What makes her appear black to you?

Definitely hispanic/latina, IMHO.

Jessica Alba's skin colour is too dark for her to be a pure blood European, she does not look like an Arab (the Arabs occupied Spain) and she is definitely not a pure blood Red Indian. The Apaches for instance are Native American Mexican Indians.

Hollywood shows Mexicans as being tanned rather than black/brown so to people living out of the Americas she does not look Mexican (=Latino). So people assume that Ms Alba has some diluted black blood in her.

Note: I can across warnings that Mexico, unlike the Southern States, did not have laws banning inter-racial marriage so lots of Latinos are Mestizo.

 

[KoshFan]

I think she falls under the category "mixed" or "other."

My young cousins are one-quarter Mayflower descendants, one-quarter black, and one-half Vietnamese; what race would you call them?

I'd call them "the future" -- and Ms. Alba along with. One day us white folks will be an atavism.

 

[Mindwalker]

along with black folk, brown folk, etc...

 

[GaribaldisHair]

What about little green men?

 

[Sindatur]

What about little green men?

I think folks from every ethnicity get hangovers on occasion from drinking too much

 

[Mindwalker]

wonder what people will discrimate by in the future when everybody is the same color due to "mixing of the colors" so to speak. Would be interesting to hop in a Time Machine and see.

 

[Jade Jaguar]

My young cousins are one-quarter Mayflower descendants, one-quarter black, and one-half Vietnamese; what race would you call them?

Human race...

 

[Jade Jaguar]

Note: I can across warnings that Mexico, unlike the Southern States, did not have laws banning inter-racial marriage so lots of Latinos are Mestizo.

Even if such laws are still on the books somewhere in the US, they are illegal, and unenforcable.